Exerciser



July 14, 1925' I 1,545,527

' C. T. $TEVEN$ET AL' V EXERCISER -1 Filed Nov. 27, 1922 Patented July 14, 1925.

(UNITED, STATES 1,545,527 PATENT; OFFICE.

s'r. ouis, vussounr, A CORPORATION or MISSOURI.

I EXERCISER.

Applieation flled November 27, 1922. Serial No. 603,569.

To aZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, CHARLES T. STEVENS and EDWIN S. DELAPLANE, citizens of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, inthe Stateof Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Exercisers, of which the following is a specification,

This invention 1s an improvement of the subject-matter of the patent to William 1E.

Lauer ;for exerciser filed. August 18, 192 1, Patent No. 1,456,317,112 isto be under stood that the device herein shown and described can be used inthe same manner as the device illustrated and described in the said Lauer patent, but that the construction herein shown and described embodies improvements thereover.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in wvhich like numbers of reference denote like parts wherever theyoccur, a

Figure 1 is a side elevation of this device when arranged to be used aszan exerciser; Figure 2 is a side elevation thereof when set up as a chair; and l i V Figure v3 is a front elevation of such chair.

in the said Lauer patent, this-device ismore and in the plain form shown in the said Lauer patent, maybe so unornainental as to be unwelcome in the ordinary living rooms of a home. Theprincipal object of Lauer apparatus with an ornamental form, so that it can be kept in any living room, and also so to construct that device that it will be useful as a chair when not in use as an exerciser. T

Further features of invention are found in the necessary alteration of structure to accomplish the aforesaid purposes and in the addition of exerciser rings, the use of which is made possible with this device by reason of the addition to the Lauer device of the chair feature.

All the parts of this device are formed, shaped, and finished in such a manner as to constitute the same when set up as a chair a beautiful and ornamental piece of furniture having all the appearance of a high-class chair, the alternative use of While useful for the purposes set forth} which can not be detected from a front View onn'nnusr. s'ruvuns nun EDWIN sflnELArLANn, or sr LoUI-s, arssounr, AS

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ofthe chair and which canhardly be suspectedfrom a side view thereof and which can berclearly perceivedonly from a rear ,VlBW or fromseeing the device laid down as. an exerciser in the manner shown in Figure 1.

a) The baselconstitutes the chairback. The

legs 2 extend therefrom and are preferably integral therewith. a i V The legs 3 extend from the seat-support 4, but not so far as legs 2.1, Extensions 5 areattached by hinges 6 to legs means of the extensionsb the "legs 3 are I lengthu of legs 2, so that when the device lengthenechso as to correspond with the is used as a chair it w ill, stand as shown 111 Figures 2 and 3. lVhenused 218111113X- erciser in the manner shown in Figure 1,

The: legs?) contain;grooves'flin which the extensions 5 hang down andoutofthe ,way, as plainly shown in Figure 1.

a projection 8 from seat 9& fitsl fThis is sothat the usercanjsit on seat 9 when exercising in the-manner provided-for in Figure-1; A similar groove 10- in seat-V support lrecerves prO ectr n 8, and; allows seat 9 to, occupy, the; position shown in p when the device is to be Figures 2 and 3 usedv as a chair.

Braces 11 steady legs 3 when used as a V chair, and form a supporting post there for when used 111 the nianner SllJOWVH in Figure '1. Brace 12 t es. legs 3 together.

Brace 13-'does the same forextensionso. the present inventionv 1s to providethe and 13, a firmfstructure either for a chair or an exerclser as prov ded.

hen aVpe-rson using this ldeviceias an exerciser, is seated upon seat 9 in the position shown in Figure 1, his 'toes will be held in toehold 14, which is preferably formed of a strap or band with a buckle 15 or the like, which toehold 1 1 is removable when not in use 'as an exerciser, so

Seat support 4: is firmly attached to base 1 1. -By this means and the braces 11, 12,

that it will not mar the appearance of the allow for adjustment for people whose length of leg is not the same.

are located in a pa1-t19 dished or counter- The exerciser can bend ;his I head back to the floor near the outer" end of legs 2 and return to an upright position Without danger of tilting the ba-se l in either di- I tio duet fiheflfast hat he iistlibff the legs 2 beyond seat 9 operates as tiltresisting means.

Rings 17 and elastic or spring cords. .1 87; are mounted on the back out the chairback or base 1, so as to be"" 1out\o:fsight when notin use, and this form of exercise known aspull cords c'ar'fbe used with thedevi'cej baseconvertible into a chair back, and havng a tilt resisting extension" forming an integral part of the chair back and base,

eas s? arnes t ds d t l tive 0 1 a sea in two positions in planes transverse to" '4.- Aneicercisingapparatus embodying the construction of a chair having a seat, back and leg s, and havmgfa tilt resisting" exten;

wliferf in a the position shown: in F igure 1" sion forming integral part ofifthe 'back'of theeha g'a seat adapted to beselectively used in L 'trvo planes and a" removable eaten p or' iii th'e position 's hoivn fin Figures 2, and?v The holders 16 for the toeho1'd'14 sunk inthe ehairback or underneath side of the base 1, so that the device can lie fiat; on thefloonin the mann'erfshowri in Figure "1'." The holders"16 Tare{preferably arranged in pairs, the near "member of'ea'ch Figuresfl and 2.

Having thus fdescribed thi'sinventiomwe hereby reserve benefit of all changes in 7 form, arrangement; order, or use ofparts," as 'itis videhtit'hat inaiiy inino'r changesfi may be made .therein withoutfileparting from thespian; 'of'this entio'n or uie scope of the folloyving'claiins. 1 WVe cl aiiri:""- 1.. An exercising apparatus embodying the construction of chair liax' iiig legs, the frent legs fof the chair b'eing 'forirned fer hinged sections with: the 'uppefsections rigid with the bottolrijof the chair, the" lowerj hi'ngedflapparattis' with the seat linoun'ted on the sections" off-th e front leg's"dropping 'to a vertical po's'itioifwh'efi the c'hair "'i's"1aijd on its back for use as an ex ercis'iijg apparatus; and ztseat detaehable from the chair bottom and adapted to be horizontally -positil'nied upon tlie' rigid sections of "the fr- 111; legs. 'f

2L'An exercising apparatus embodying the I construetip n ofaehair liaying legs, the front; legs of the j chair being formedof hinged sections with the"upperfsec'tions"rigid with thefbottom of" thefeh r, the lovveryhinged seems S ofthelegs'beifig for the pur ose f supporting'the "deyice'asahhaii" in one 150st tion and auto natici'elnoval' outof'th'e ay in another position when on" its back for'use as an exerciserl exercisingapparatus comprising a i the chair is" l id 5 sion embodying'fofivai'dcollapsible legs con neted with the isaid 'seat and adapted for renew eat" of enemy when "the ichair islaid on its back-for use as an'exerc'lseiz 5. exercis ngappariatuseinbodying the constructlonjof acha'ir, having 'a' back,- rear legs, a seat s'u pport; -:and "front 'f1egs ,and a *sea'tf" selectively mounted on; the seat support L and front legs when the chairisirespectiively set up a c'hair and laid on'its back for use asanexereiserr V p 6-; An exercising apparatus emboc lyingthe Iconstruc'tiofof a chair; having a "back, rear' legs,,a seat support'andiiont legs; a seat selectively inounted'on the-seat'support arid front legs vvhei'if the'jchaii'r 'i's' respectively laid on'it's'lbalckand set up" as a chair, and the front legs haVIng lower' h"1nged sections adapted to drepftoa vert calosltion when the chaiiri's laidonits'baek-as an exercising rigid segtions of the front legs.

a V 7F Anemrcising apparatus embodying the construction of a chair, having a back, reanv legsjlia. seat s p ort and 'fnonfilegs a seat seleti'vely mounted on the seat support and. f

frp itlegs when the ch air' is respectively laid:

to displa'ce' the outer end'swof. the front legsj with respect to the seat? Intestimony whereof we hereuntoafiix.

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